We've been tracking the potential of the PS3 as a Superecomputer since it came out,
this is a very interesting additional story
A project that harnesses the spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) to help understand the cause of diseases has entered the record books.
Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home (FAH) as the world's most powerful distributed computing network.
FAH has signed up nearly 700,000 PS3s to examine how the shape of proteins affect diseases such as Alzheimer's.
The network has more than one petaflop of computing power - the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
Watch this space, I don't think we've seen that last of this machine's potential. Previous posts of ours on this beastie are
here and
here.
Technology research house isuppli has put out a research note showing that the new PS3 is c $250 - $300 underpriced for what it is, and has been extremely well engineered for power: To quote: With the PlayStation 3, you are getting the performance of a s
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